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Show Constrnctlon of Reservoir AIjuvi lien ver. Several weeks ago we gave notice of the letting of a contract for the building build-ing of a nine-mile canal from Cherry Creek to within three or four miles of Denver, with branches to the city limits. lim-its. This is being built by the Arapahoe Arapa-hoe County Ditch Company, consisting consist-ing of Dr. John Parsons, Hon. Daniel Witter and John Gabathuler, and about two-thirds of the work has now been performed. The canal is being made eight feet wide on the bottom, and is calculated to run water two feet in depth, ft will water almost all of the land between Cherry and Sand Creeks, a strip about six miles in width and ten in length. The line will run to the vicinity of the Lake House on the cut-off road. The canal is so constructed as to take in its course three natural depressions or basins in the land, which will be made in'o reservoirs, the water nowing irom me nrst to tne second, and from the second to the third, and from the latter it can be drawn off at pleasure wherever the line of the canal runs. These three basins when filled, will contain an area of 100 acres, from which a depth of five feet of water can be drawn. Tne construction of this canal and reservoir is r.n enterprise which will be of inestimable value to the lands along its route, and indirectly to Denver, in causing the rapid settlement settle-ment of said lands. It may also prove to be able to give this city the best system of water works yet projected, as the water can be brought in pipes to any part of the city, and from so great a height that streams can be thrown over the highest buildings. Dntvr Trihvnr. |